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Articles tagged “self-blame”
September 16, 2026 · 2 min read · Episode 18
A rewritten broken heart
Every broken heart arrives with a story attached, and the first draft is almost always the cruelest one. This episode is about rewriting it — not into a flattering story, but an accurate one: why self-blame feels like control, how to restore the conditions the first draft deleted, what the body is doing underneath the storytelling, and how to end the story facing forward.